October 14, 2001	Sunday	Rajab 26, 1422

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PR police to get eviction powers LAHORE, Oct 13: The railway police are being given magisterial powers to remove encroachments from the railway land....		JI decides to launch drive against Musharraf LAHORE, Oct 13: The Jamaat-i-Islami has decided in principle to launch a vigorous agitation to force President Pervez Musharraf to step down and set up an interim government to run the...
Plan to close three police training centres GUJRANWALA, Oct 13: The police department has decided in principle to close down its training centres in Gujranwala, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan to cut expenditure, it was learnt....		Rs2.5m dacoity in hosiery unit FAISALABAD, Oct 13: Dacoits took away valuables worth Rs2.5 million from a hosiery unit in Khurrianwala, about 15 kilometres from here, on Friday night....
Two die in Fireworks explosion FAISALABAD, Oct 13: Two people were killed and three sustained serious injuries in an explosion in a fireworks factory in Nalka Kohala Town in the Sargodha Road area here on Saturday....		Three women kidnapped KASUR, Oct 13: Three women were abducted on Saturday in and around Kasur....
Centre to transfer major subjects to provinces ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: All the major provincial subjects/development programmes currently being looked after and performed by the federal government are being handed over to the provinces in line with the decision...		NGOs limit activities in Northern Areas GILGIT, Oct 13: Over two dozens of non-governmental organizations working in the Northern Areas have put their operations on hold in the wake of emerging threat to foreign-funded NGOs....
Altaf blasts Jihadi organizations ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: Mr Altaf Hussain, chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), has asked the leaders of religious parties and Jihadi groups created by what he called the ISI, to give...		No action taken yet against Jaish: official ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: An official of Jaish-i-Mohammad, whose assets were frozen by the US on Friday, said on Saturday that he had only read it in newspapers, and added that no...
Strike observed in Hub HUB, Oct 13: A complete shutterdown strike was observed here on Friday on the call of the defence council for Afghanistan (DCA) and other religious groups to protest against the US-led...		Two injured Afghans Brought to Quetta QUETTA, Oct 13: Two Afghans who had received injuries in some explosion were admitted to civil hospital. Faiz Mohammad and Abdul Sattar were brought from Dalbandin in Chaghai district, some 350...
CPNE assures govt of positive Press role ISLAMABAD, Oct 13: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has assured the government that the Press in Pakistan will play a positive and helpful role during the critical situation the...		JUI firm on ‘gherao’ of airport QUETTA, Oct 13: The Secretary General of Jamiat Ulema Islam Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidri has warned the government not to stop the supporters and workers of his party from reaching Jacobabad...
MLA gets bail in graft case MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 13: The AJK High Court here on Saturday granted bail to AJK legislative assembly member Sardar Akhtar Hussain Rabbani in a graft case....		Taliban refuse help from tribes KOHAT, Oct 13: The Taliban government has refused any sort of help offered by the Pakistani tribal community and asked thousands of fighters belonging to religious groups like Jamaat-i-Islami and Jamiat...
United Nations role slammed SWABI, Oct 13: The Defence Council of Afghanistan and Pakistan (DCAP), has flayed the UN for not intervening to halt aggression....		Illegal excavations continue MARDAN, Oct 13: In the series of illegal excavations continuing at various sites in Mardan district, an extremely worthy site including a 2,000-year-old graveyard near Sangao village, was levelled by the...
Oil tanker blocks Kohat Road for 15 hours KOHAT, Oct 13: A 14-wheel oil tanker slipped off the narrow hilly track on the Indus Highway between Kohat and Peshawar during rain and dangled, blocking the highway and bringing to...		NGO hospital staff leaves country MANSEHRA, Oct 13: After the threats from the religious party’s activists, the foreign staff of Bach Christen, missionary, Hospital Qalander Abad has left the country, which has made the life of...
Growers oppose water rotation programme MIRPURKHAS, Oct 13: The growers and landlords of Sindhri sub- division at a meeting held on Saturday strongly opposed the rotation programme announced by Irrigation Department, Mithrao division for closing the...		Newsmen urged to fight social evils BADIN, Oct 13: Speakers at a commemorative function have urged the journalists to wage a war against the narcotics, gambling and other social evils which were on the rise in the...
PTCL official’s appeal to CE DADU, Oct 13: The Director Human Resources,PTCL Lahore, Syed Dost Ali Shah, has appealed to President Pervez Musharraf to order the Sukkur district police to register FIR against former Sindh chief...		Five gamblers arrested in raid DADU, Oct 13: Five gamblers were arrested in a raid conducted by the Sehwan police near Sehwan Sharif fort on Saturday....
One dies in tribal clash SHIKARPUR, Oct 13: One person was killed and four others injured in a tribal clash in village Mohammad Saleh Issani on Saturday....		Man confesses to killing son SUKKUR, Oct 13: The mystery shrouding the fate of a youth, Akbar, who had been missing for several days has been resolved after the confession of his father who said he...